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Thursday, June 28, 2012

The Surprise Announcement – It was all part of the ruse!

The cockiness
with which this administration behaves was once again bared open by their
decision to disband three provincial councils last night, which would mean that
elections will be in the offing, perhaps as early as the first week of
September to these three Provincial Councils, North Central, Eastern and Sabaragamuwa.

The earlier news, some true some deliberate misinformation, and I am not privy to which one, was that due to the impending severe drought and bad economic
conditions, the Govt. will postpone these elections till about March 2013, when
things are expected to be a little better! The other point was that the Chief
Minister of the North Central had specifically said that they would be
postponed, and further, the Muslims had requested a delay due to Ramazan.
Further the Muslim Party, SLMC was demanding the Chief Ministerial candidate in
advance if they were to go as an alliance.

It is possible
that the forecasters were predicting a dire outcome for 2013 that they (Govt.) felt the
best course would be to show that the Govt. still has a plebiscite with the majority and
has the public on their side, whatever action they expect to undertake on
account of the crisis. It was also possible that a petty reason of showing
Berty to be a nincompoop was also part of the intention, as he had latterly
been sidelined by the Chiefs in Govt. and the Deyata Kirula gravy train was
exclusively shared in the South with nothing going to Berty and his henchmen in
Anuradhapura. Berty at it turns out was frothing mad and on a tirade against the first family! There is even talk of him joining with the UNP to go their route as a Cheif Ministeriral Candidate. I of course would implore the UNP not to fall into that trap with such inappropriate people.

Be that as it
may, it shows the arrogance of power, the inebriation of tyranny, and the absolute
control the dictatorship has over its minions to be able to make a sudden and unexpected
move such as this, despite the warnings, putting caution to the wind and going for
broke.

The cynics have also
pointed out that in the event of things not seeming to go their way the vote could
be rigged their way, so they have all the power of incumbency to do as they please.
After all the Govt. shamefacedly indulges in using all the resources of the state
machinery from people to vehicles for election work, a massive power and this time
money also to buy the certainty of a vote for them, armed with lists of voters,
and numbers and statistics they have built up to ensure a sure win.

We must watch proceedings
with caution to learn the art of the inevitable.